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Ingraham: Colin Powell's GOP 'intolerance' claim 'patently absurd'

Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham on Monday blasted former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s comment that there is a “dark vein of intolerance” in the Republican Party as “patently absurd.”

“The idea that the Republican Party’s problem is that the party is inherently racist, or led by racists, or has a core of racists in it, is just patently absurd,” Ingraham said, according to a transcript from her radio show.

Ingraham said Powell, who identifies as a Republican, “sounds more like Reverend Al [Sharpton] than Ronald Reagan."